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Read more »Linux Professional Institute to host events at LinuxWorld
For the third consecutive year, the Linux Professional Institute will provide discounted certification testing during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Aug. 6 through 9, 2007, at the Moscone Center. Toronto-based LPI is the official certification sponsor of LWCE, offering a standardized, multi-national program to certify professional expertise in Linux.
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Critical vulnerabilities announced for all Adobe Flash platforms, including Linux and Solaris
No less than three critical vulnerabilities have been identified by Adobe affecting upon users of Flash Player 9.0.45.0 and earlier, 8.0.34.0 and earlier, and 7.0.69.0 and earlier.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Released
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 was released on Thursday 14th June. This update to the Mozilla Corporation's mail client includes bug fixes but no new features. For the first time, this release of Thunderbird is available in Korean.
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[Joyent] Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free
"Today Joyent is releasing the source code for our Connector and Slingshot products under the GPL v2"
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Open Source Semantic Desktop Is Coming
Thanks to the open source NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) effort, the Semantic Desktop isn't a dream; it's an emerging reality and will be here with the upcoming release of KDE 4 for the Linux desktop.
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The Lesser Apps of KDE - Multimedia
Everyone who's ever owned a computer has at one time or another found a need to play some kind of multimedia file, play a cd or dvd, or watch a video on their computer. KDE provides a list of built in applications that allow you to do that. While they won't cover all your needs, they do cover a lot. So let's look at each of these and what they offer you.
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Easy TV Data To Rescue MythTV
Last month Zap2It Labs announced that it would be discontinuing its free TV listings service through XML, which MythTV users inside of the United States depend upon for listing data. However, there is now hope that there will be a viable replacement by the time Zap2It eliminates their service in September of this year
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What's cooking for FreeBSD 7?
The next major release of FreeBSD, version 7, is one of the most significant so far, with amount of new technologies and improvement largest since introduction of 5.0. Since constantly searching the mailing lists for important changes can be a bit tedious, I've created this (frequently updated) page to list some of the more interesting new things in one place.
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Making your laptop Linux friendly
I stood in line for the Wal-Mart Special $379 Compaq Presario V5000 CTO Notebook PC last year (Black Friday deal). It was a true bargain, you couldn't ask more for a laptop.
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Even More Gaming In Ubuntu Feisty...
After recently putting together a list of 11 great games in Ubuntu, a few concerned readers politely suggested games that should have been on that list. As a result, I discovered many games I hadn’t even heard of, but turned out to be fun
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Sun looks to steal Linux thunder with OpenSolaris
Looking to steal thunder from the Linux juggernaut or at least catch the same wave, Sun plans to release binaries in Spring 2008 for its OpenSolaris Unix platform, similar to how Linux is offered, as part of the company's Project Indiana.
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Lock in productivity with Lockout utility
You can stop computer-based slacking with a few changes to your computer's DNS profile, and enforce the changes using Lockout, a tool designed to enforce discipline and increase productivity.
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OpenOffice.org alternatives - Part 2
There are really only two mainstream competitors to OOo Calc, one from the GNOME Office suite and the other from KDE’s KOffice Project. However, I’ll also look at a bit more of an exotic solution after that as well.
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Bash tutorial
Here we go, bash scripting is nothing more then combining lots of UNIX commands
to do things for you, you can even make simple games in bash
(just UNIX commands) or as in normal cases, batch files to control things
in your computer.
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